The Sun. — London, England, 1818-07-15 00:00:00

-oleo, -such 'as cer.'llieiverS, blackstnitift, brick makers, iFte:? To enable themselves to go through 'their exertions ) , they drink six and seven pots of 'beer a day., and many of tneui rekti deal more. The six or seven-price a day sacrificed to the li censing interest was equal to a perpe iial property tax of 10 per cent, on the bibouring luau's wages, sufficient to pay for the lodging of the poor man and his fatuity, tor the whole of their clothing, or for the bringing tip a ch;ld Inch:pen !rutty ! In the Pg:!reVate. 0114 penny per quart was equal to 630 000/. s'erling on t;tie inhabitants of the me tropolis and its vicinity ! But he argued it avas la mentably true, that the esseioial interests of the country of late years have been sacrificed in the meßsoreg which have been taken to benefit the vowel fill at the ex pence of the poor, by raising the prices tit the necessaries of life artificially.-- Thus to teed the Curporation, the magisterial and the brewing interests, all of . thent powerful Par liamentary interests, we have the Licensing Laws. These raise the price of beer. To pamper the landed interest with high rentals, we have the Corn Laws. These raise the price of bread. To gratify the coal, micilog, and shippiug in terests, tse have certain Acts of Parliament ex cluding competition, which raise the price of coals ; and Gentry quilt this country to reside. on the Continent ; and urn manufacturrrs h' gin to follow. In proportion as these withdr3w; and the burdens of the State are left to be sits tained upon diminished means, their pressure must increase till pa•t bearing. i lf!er. .com rnen'ting at great length, and with considerable ability, on the numerous other et its contiogent un the licensing system. he particulaily imitated out 'an injury arising from the Magistrates arbitrarily refusine to renew licences, by tvhich the indivi- Anal who owned the licence is .ruined. Specula tors in licences were very eager to prevent the Ithigistrates having the power to refuse a renewal of a licence once granted ; they would improve their annual term of licence into a pet petuity, their speculation into a certainty, their 1 or 20001. pt ice for a licence into 3 or 40001. ; but they will not listen to the granting of licences to others who might compete with them. In furtherance of this design nearly a. thousand pounds was subscribed by the to;rit-dealets io the metropolis, two years s'nce, and a Bill was brought into Parliament for the regulation of the licensing system, which would have tendered it quite impossible to put down any existing licence, however misused, and almost impossible to have procured any new one. This wonld have increased ;he price of licences, and the coostimption of spirits, wonderfully, had it gone down, and given an excellent finish to the monopoly system , but it was frustrated by a Pe tition %hick he (Mr. IL) had put in. He then contended that nothing was to be feared from the trade in beer and spirits being thrown open; but the licensing system gave a power of imposing bad beer at a high price, because the property of the combined brewers was held to he too sacred to be touched. Nothing, however, short of a free tradi would render publicans respectable and thriving, or produce . beer of a good qoality and at a fair price. He then satirized Mr. Calvert for express trig his hope that he (Mr.. B ), whom lie called a Aisappointed Magistrate, would be exhibited in his proper colours. lie teat! the copy of a letter lie had sent to Mr. Calvert, calling igloo him to prove the charges he Lad made it, the House of Commons, and relieving every thing he hail said or done from the seal of confidence, and con cluded with declaring that be never anticipated any personal advantages beyond the gratification of reselling the public, and the poor in particular, from the detestable tyranny of arbitrary licensing. Dlr. 30NES BURDETT, who had entered the room towards the close of Mr. Beantuont's vatement, then rose surd said, that .be attended on the part of Sir F. Burdett, to state his regret that he could not attend the meeting to-day. He hoped that the great fatigue which he had undergone yester day would be received as an apology. At the same time, Sir F. Burdett had desired him to say, that he should be happy to promote the object of the meeting ; that, at present, he was not ac quainted with the subject, but he should he glad to receive any information which the Committee might think proper to send him. The following Resolution was then read from the Chair, and carried uttanimously. " That, from what has occurred in the late House of Com mons, respectin4 the arbitrary system of licensins; puhlic houses, this Meeting feel tbein•elves justified it) persevering in their exertions to obtain a permanent remrdv to counter act the numerous grievances which result from that system." The next resoled ion wns— " That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that a due regard fur the health and property of his Majesty's subject, requiry that a full disclo,nre he male of all convictions of brewers, who have been detected in having in their pocsession dele terious or unlawful i•igredients for the tua%itu.; of beer; and that th. Reprdientatives in Parliatnent fur Westminster be respectfully solicited to move for the printio< of the same, together with the evidence lately taken by the CoLomatee on the publi; breweries." Mr. 13 kaRY seconded these Resohitions, and dis caated on the inignity of the system of mixing deleterious drngs with beer, which, he contended, still prevailed to an cncrunius estent. It had been his fatality to see human Ila- Lore in its worst shapes for twenty-five years, but he never Witnessed such disgraceful conduct as that of some of the Brewers.—He Lad lately been before the Board of Lxeise, the vigilance f whose officers deserved the thanks cif the pulilic, as did the conduct of the Commissioners. lie saw a large table ciArrel with no less than thirteen different ingredients for adulteratio4 beer, all taken from on brewery. Time owt4er ..•as fined 300/. ; but he was only one. out of a dozen (sr Eifteen who had been convicted within th:se few weeks. Chemists had proved that these articles were to be used as sibstituies for malt and hops, as well as for colouring, sweeteninv,., bittering, and for guying a false he. to the beer ; and be a.•:i.de for this last purpose was actually white copperas. One of these men, after lie teas convicted, on the clearest evidence, rushed to the table, and seizing a bible, tool: his oath that 4c had never used noxious ingredients in his life !—No; fur dirty worli we were all able to piocure dirty servants. The oppression of the Brewers towards the poorer .:ho of publicans was infamous, as was proved at every meeting of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, where ten or twelve vvere dis,har,:ed every fortnight. The llrewer took a warrant of attornty on letting a man unto his Louse, and if lie did not prove successful, he entered up judg ment, and swept away all that he had, to the exclusion of all other creditors. He then defended sir. Beaumont, and hoped that if there was any oblogny or blame to result, the Meeting and the Committee would share it; but whatever merit might appear, it ought to be all his own. D!;EWRY, a brewer, who opposed the com parative statements of Nlr. Ileatimont at the fernier Meeting, declared himself in favour of a free trade in beer, and inimi cal to the arbitrary system of licensing. He was proceeding to read extracts from a pamphlet, to - sbew that Mr. L.'s ttoternents of the !.rice's of malt and hops were incorrect, when he was called to order, as the ',atter he introduced Was completely to reign ta the object of the present m ee ting, the sulmject of prices having been combatted in time 11 Oil Se. Of CWIIIIIOIIS. After much controversial argumeut ott the %It cc %Ire received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last. The following are Extracts " PARIS, JULY 12.—The Duke of Wellington gate a grand dinner on Friday. " The Count Portalis had the honour of beitig presented to the Pope on the 24th ult, by the Dench Ambassador at Rowe, the Count de Blacas. " 1 the wife of a grocer, Rue de flunovre, and her mother, agreed to take poison in their food. The mother, impatient at what she thought its slo‘s operation, ti.r,w Crum a window on the sixth story. She was taken up alive, and carried back into the house. The daughter died at seven in the evening, the mo ther, notwithstanding her fall, lived two hours longer. The motives of this double suicide are not known. " We learn from Marseilles that travellers from Leghorn state, that they left in that port three American ships of the line and two ft igates ; a fourth shit► of the line set sail a few days pre viously. At the departure of these travellers the determination of the ToscanGovernment, as to the 3 uthorit y demanded by the American Commodore to cast anchor at Porto Ferrajo, was nut known. We learn from the Upper Rhine, that the Emperor of Austria, on his join my to Aix-ln- Chapelle, will proceed to the head-tiunrters of General Friniont, iu Alsace, in order to inspect the corps of Austrian troops under his orders. tin of Order, tie opitnan of the company tieing apinst the topics he wished to urge, be gave them up. Mr. HoLMEs cob! ended that Mr. Beaumont had much over-rated the sums said to be given for licensed houses. He doubted Whether 10001. was often given fur a house that sold eight butts per month; the ordinary price was 4001. or 3001. But ht had entirely left out the other and greater part of the profit which arose from spirits. He therehre held out asielosion, when he sivel that the profits arose from beer. The :sleeting should therefore pause before thee eau), ti a re solution that one penny per pot in beer would be saved by abolishing the licensing system. The sums given for estab lished public-houses were not for the license, but for the good-will, the custom having been increased by the last occupier; tit4d he had a right to make saeli a profit by his industry. The persons most injured by the licensing system were the publicans and the brrwer4 !—( Loud roars of laugh ter.).--It. was wrong to implieate the Brewers in the licensing system ; they had nothing. to do with it, and as to mix ing noxious drugs with their beer, it had been shewn that only one great Brewer had been convicted in six years; and instead of a monopoly, it bad turned out that there was the most active competitiou amongst them; while those whose houses were of the greatest magnitude were of most be nefit to the public. Was it then necessary to attack the Brewers because the licensing SyStCM was an evil. He denied that the profits of the Brewers were so great as had been stated I , y Nlr. lie,usmoot. For wear and tear, casks, &c. there ote.:lit to, he an addition of es. 6d, per barrel, which would reduce their profits to only Is. a barrel. The Brewers wished the licensing system to be reeked, and it aught to he known that the worst Brewers were the greatest purchasers of !muses. He then gave the following statement, sheaving the proport Om of public-houses belunging to brewers in towu and conniiy:— ..... . ID Lon,kw, the number. ~f Licenced Houses was 4,2.17 Of ‘s Web there wen: held by Brewers • Fiee, liciuses In the Cnitntry nelotigipe; ti, firCIVitTS . Free 'lnuit., The greatest proportion of Brewers' houses in the conktry in those counties which were nearest to London. lie would wish it to be enacted, that no Brewer should hereafter bold the lease of a public-house; that is, after the present teases had expired, which by opening competition would cure the el complained of, by compelling the small llrewers to make good beer. desultory sort of debate ensued, in which Mr. C. PITT, Mr. LEM .time, some Publicans, Mr. JAG°, and others, ex pressed their abhorrence of the injustice done to publicans by caking away licenses on account of the political principles of the holders, and recommended a Petition for a law that no titan should be so deprived without trial by Jury. Mr. BEAutkinNy then replied to the rations ob jections that had been urged ; and Mr. D. KINNAI an recom mended that no time should be lust in taking the business out of the bands,of corrupt Magistrates. Other• Resolutions were then agreed to, stating it to be the opinion that, beer would be sold at bd. per pot if the trade were free; that the extra price was equal to a levy of 850,000:. on the industrious classes, and 4,000,0001. on the inhabitants generally; that it be recommended to introduce a clause into any legislative proceeding - that may be adopted •to secure to the puhlican the right of trial; and that a deputation of the Committee do wait urn the Nlemints for London, Westminster, antLthe Bo rough, Sir Francis Bartlett, and Sir Samuel Romilly, Sir Robert ‘t ilson, and Mr. Waithinan, to request them to fa vour the Committee with their powerful exertions to obtain for thy British Public a free trade in beer, and an ameliora tion of the present system of arbitrary licensing. These being all Ilnatiinlowly carried, and thanks being voted to the Chairman, the Meeting broke up at five o'clock. -THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performcd Last Night. 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Evening, 42 minutes after THE SUN. SOLEM quis DU:ERE FALSUM AVOLAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, ISIS. FIVE FF.'S CENTS. S:tt rfla y Luau Certificates 1.5 f. STOCK of the 220. March, I i;t7, '22,1 Sept. 1 i 7, RS I. b 0 c. .22ti Alarch, 131 s, 65 I. :13c. " MAnlitu, Juba; 30.---nie King I, as QrJacci thatthe lour ports of entreptit, Saint A.nder,Cornti nit, Cadiz, and Alicant, shall be opened to fo reign commerce from the 15th of July next:--- These ports were declared free by a decree of the 30th March I.st, and his Majesty has also order ed, that all foreign merchaudize brought thither in consequence of that decree, shall enjoy the privileges of entrepor. . " MANHEIM, JULY 6.—New Conferences have taken place at Frankfort between the Ministers of the ptincipal Powers, for the purpose of defini tively arranging all the objects respecting the affairs of Germany, which are not yet decided upon. In these Conferences they were exclusively occupied- with every thing that relates to the Germanic Confederation." The more we consider the Speech of Sir FRAN CIS BURDETT, at the Crown and Anchor on Mon day last, the mole we are struck with the folly of the man, and, the more we are convinced that we should rather pity him for weakness than condemn for evil intentions, and the more we are per suaded that his chief object is vulgar popularity. Is it possible to suppose that in the loose, desul tory, declamAtion of a taveril dinner, when his awn feeble powers were perhaps, indeed probably, clouded by the liquor which he had drank, that he ,was capable of discussiog the important matter contained in Mr. CANNING'S last speech at Liver pool ; a speech that would have done honour to the wisest man ot,ancient or modern times, and that demand 4 the deliberate and profound consi deration of the ablest Statesmen, and most learned, intelligent, and experienced sopljerS ? Sir FRANCIs BURDETT is a mere. shallow, ad captandunt Orator, with a little better education than the CLEARYS, the JONESES (GUA, the STURCHEs, we may well add the PRESTONS, the DYALLS, the WATsONs, and the whole tribe of men who never could rise into notice except in the tumults of sedition, and who would soon be consigned to the whipping post in any other coun try. But the public existence and toleration of such . men th effect of our free Constitution. " A bad effect, but from a glorious cause." As to the Baronet's hackneyed abuse of Minis ters, that was to be expected ; it is the political pabulum with which he feeds his empty followers. But if his Agents had not fed them with some thing more substantial, he never would have risen so high on the Poll, or hare appeared in the Car of sorry elevation it) which he was beheld with pity and contempt, by all but a weak and mis chieroos gabble, on Mcinday.—.llr. CAN N ING'S brief, but luminous, exposition of the true nature, character, and operation of the political system to which we are indebted for all our happiness, freedom, and that pre-eminence as a people which render us the envy as well as admiration of all other Stater, ought, as the phrase is, to be written in letters of gold, and conspicuously in scribed in every place where it might impress the nation with a sense of the blessings which they enjoy under such an unrivalled Constitution.— To try the tampering arts of modern Reformers ' upon such a system of Govern Meta would be patilica/ suicide, and he present state of France ought to be viewed as an eternal memento against such dangerous empiricism, or rather national destruction. The New Times of this day has en tered into a sort of comparison between those who style themselves Whigs and the Burdettites, and seems to consider the former as op posed to the latter on account of the " out rageous doctrines"—" the wild and visionary projects of political regeneration," and the " danget t ous doctrine, that would seek im provement only in a radical Reform" incul cated by the Burdettite3, and who affect to treat these doctrines as equally absurd with those of Universal Stiff 'rage and Atritial Parliaments. nut it is well known that these very Whigs have advocated the very same doctrines, and in a more subtle and dangerous manner. Did not the pre sent [lead of those Whigs ) , if they have now any . Head among them, Sir SANIUEL ROMILLY, more than insinuate, when he condescended to appear on the ilostiugs, that he would endeavour to shortim the duration of Parliaments, and if he did avuiv an 'equal intention to promote Uai versal Suirrage; he was perhaps testrained by the fear of appearing to blend too intimately the Whip And Burdettites. The truth is, that there is no difference between the two bodies, they are both Patriots and Po/iticirtnE of the same princi ples, and have the same views. They ate both corrupted by the success of the first Revo lwionists in France, and think that if they could overturn the present system of Govern ment, and obtain the same power, they would be able more firmly to hold it, end not Suf fer the saute fete. Besides, do we not see in France men reisNl to high ranks, end suffered to wear revolutionary lii e 3, who ought only to ' , nye becu wised to the glilo‘”, hind is not this elevAtivn iti:r77l',VC to the wbqle rare of :no:lern &formes, whether they atteniPt 1)7 the Constitution as Whi , .;s, or to batter it i t " ruin as Burdettites. There is really 1 10 dig tinetinn between them in th e i r pr i nc iples and tho r objects, the /Rigs are Burdettites, and the Bur : tlettites are Whigs, and they merely differ in tb ell relative positions in society, the IPhigs 11 01116 something to lose, but wanting something more, and the 13tirdettiteshaving nothing to lose and e rerif thing to gain, Having given a full account of the Arvrt MONOPOLY MEETING yesterday, at the Crown 3n Anchor, for the purpose of pointing out the in ' juriuus nature of the Licensing Systetn with re' spect to Public-houses, we need say little m oven° the subject. Great praise is certainly due t o Air ' BAttnett BsatimoNT, to whom the Publi c are . highly indebted for having first set on foot all vestigation into the nature of this edlo an d f() : his perseverance in having essentially contr ibutru to the measure of submitting that evil to t he Etv tention of the Legislature. The subject wa s eV tensively and very ably treated yesterday by th is Gentleman, who fully vindicated himself agai nst the aspersions of Messrs. BattcLaT and Csevaler'' who are too much interested in the system for it to be supposed that they could conduct them', selves with impartiality towards those wi lt) opposed it. Public-houses, under proper •re‘ . gidations, are essential to the comfort of t he middling and lower classes of the people: ' 11)(1 consequently Publicans are a class of wen eg )i 'l newly useful in society, and might be re" deret as respectable as any order of Tradesmea, if they were exempted from despwie coniroul. If eg°l'. bitaot terms are exacted from them, it tv°"1(1 ,1 expecting from them more than ought to be Cr; peered from (mankind, considering the na ture lj society, to leiptire that they should be le ss l - '' fluenced by temptation than any other body o f In t : " The Tyrant makes the slave, and if t ree —c e: ;;Mature were to pi event Brewers fr°9l elite holding a Ueetice fur a Public-house, d people in general would have the advantge open competition ; the Puhlican, released fr'' n ! tyrannical Brewer, or a tyrannical c onabin ati° ss of Brewers, would go where he conk! get th e b- . 0, beer; the Brewers ace:Luse would endeavonr if crease their popularity, by the good quality °ill nt ) liquor ; the Publican, in being a more intleP ende character, would rise in the scale of society' /113 :) f what is of still greater importance, the o f the people tt large would be promoted, in' tee“ being injured, as it now is, in too many o ' i s the nauseous and deleterious composition % sitl i. ieb substituted for that wholesome beverag e ° t"jog formerly refreshed and nourished the hi" teri e branches of the community. Another in t l ir cr au• consideration, in addition to the henefieb il ow . Lion of a wholesome beverage, of sn ell igl• petition on the part of the Brewers, and tuc fire k dependence on that of the Publican, vro ubl jet , 0 , certain reduction in the price of an article tvi pe ek now almost to !reconsidered as essential. It is. ovas less to cuter into a comparison of th e 119' 5 , 5 consequences which would arise if othe r e 14541 to the community, who deal in articles essg`'"iano' human subsistence, were held in the " me b oeol l urinous bondage which oppresses the ri ‘ $ under the Licens'og System. lo fact' l oo glic system neatly allied to despotism, "' bleb 0 3 larlY not to exist in any free country, narticir that of Great Britain, where all things s l)(it io r e b permitted to find and rest on their ploP er c it 0 11 which would in due time infallibly b e the e 350,4011 private as well as public tyranny Were annihilated. ne:llle,Hull Parka of yes: .-r(1 0 y bils thoogitt P y r .ji l e ,r,.71 ih3e't the acconat that appeared il i io i t les respecting the Westmoreland Filectioo c v,; hich teas t ll L a false account us “•• . ti of tilts C°°lllc of Mr. SWIFT WI the .oeCtiioll, Prirt;C(ll3l.lY 5r8134 „..,o. treatment of an old %vorn"1" wl)° ` lO his alle , • ' near ci the Hustings. .Mr. Stvtivr rtrelleti d t iri "rt4'' , and accused the author of fill seh % °- ' ir• 4 1 9 article 'which appeared in TH, s u,l of -3 `„se ay last, leaving lii'i name at our Oflic e ' l' . .0 5 any litiiiiry should take place, hot 1 “ )/le , :tea !wide, and the author of the ja/sehood 1)6 % to in silence to t h e , denial. l y e have t he I.ol°s'irbsa )e intimately acquainted with :Qr. 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